alcaic

Even the four specimens given in the posthumous edition of Clough's poems, two of them elegiac, one alcaic, one in hexameters, though professedly constructed on a quantitative basis, and, in one instance (_Trunks the forest yielded, with gums ambrosial oozing, & c. _) combining legitimate quantity

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

He had a statesman-like partiality for the fag-end of an alcaic.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

Such unmeasured feelings could not be held within the controlled harmonies of the hexameter nor within sapphic or alcaic or Pindaric strophes.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

With the principal lyric metres, too, the sapphic and alcaic, he had done what Virgil had done with the dactylic hexameter, carried them to the highest point of which the foreign Latin tongue was capable.

Latin Literature 1902

The Virgilian movement differs not more from the Homeric, than does the Horatian sapphic or alcaic from the same metres as treated by their Greek inventors.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

In what particulars do the alcaic and sapphic metres of Horace differ from their Greek models?

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Odes and Epodes, thus acquired, were a score of days and weeks; alcaic and sapphic verses like a bead-roll for counting off the time that intervened before the holidays.

Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866

She had sung every species of melody and rythm, from the wildest dithyrambic to the severest and most grave alcaic; she had struck the lute, calling forth notes such as might have performed the miracles attributed to Orpheus and Amphion.

The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

(tenuous enough at best) shimmer and blur as he became increasingly alcaic.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

What was their joy, even at that perilous moment, as they lurked between the guardian and the abyss, to find that the box contained fifteen peerless odes in the alcaic form, five sonnets that were by far the most beautiful in the world, nine ballads in the manner of Provence that had no equal in the treasuries of man, a poem addressed to a moth in twenty-eight perfect stanzas, a piece of blank verse of over a hundred lines on a level not yet known to have been attained by man, as well as fifteen lyrics on which no merchant would dare to set a price.

The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917